The Spectral Photo
On a humid night on June 10, 1987 Harry Reynolds took the most shocking and intriguing photograph. He had been taking photos around Charleston, SC all day when he stumbled upon the graveyard of St. Philip’s Church. The main gate was locked but he grew up a block away. He knew that there was a way to get closer. He crept to a sandy part of a playground that was right beside the graveyard and got up against the brick wall that divided the two grounds. He focused the lens to perfection and took a shot. A few days later his pictures were ready to pick up. He was amazed at the spectacular pictures then he flipped to his last picture that he took that day and stopped for a few minutes and stared at the picture. What he saw was a figure that looked like a young person around her ‘s crouching at a tombstone. He sent the picture to a picture expert and the expert said that nothing was changed on the picture. He then researched that what the tombstone said and what it was. It was the tombstone of a baby that died the day of its birth. Then what is the figure crouched by the tombstone? It is the mother of the baby that also died six days after her baby’s death. She died from an infection of the blood during labor that if goes untreated will kill you. Well back in 1888 they did not have the technology to help her. So, the ghost that crouches beside the tombstone of a baby is its mother that was heartbroken and now will be with her baby for eternity.
By: Tysen Stephenson
Macy, Edward B., and Julian T. Buxton. The Ghost of Charleston . 1st ed. Charleston, SC: Beaufort Books, 2001. Print.
On a humid night on June 10, 1987 Harry Reynolds took the most shocking and intriguing photograph. He had been taking photos around Charleston, SC all day when he stumbled upon the graveyard of St. Philip’s Church. The main gate was locked but he grew up a block away. He knew that there was a way to get closer. He crept to a sandy part of a playground that was right beside the graveyard and got up against the brick wall that divided the two grounds. He focused the lens to perfection and took a shot. A few days later his pictures were ready to pick up. He was amazed at the spectacular pictures then he flipped to his last picture that he took that day and stopped for a few minutes and stared at the picture. What he saw was a figure that looked like a young person around her ‘s crouching at a tombstone. He sent the picture to a picture expert and the expert said that nothing was changed on the picture. He then researched that what the tombstone said and what it was. It was the tombstone of a baby that died the day of its birth. Then what is the figure crouched by the tombstone? It is the mother of the baby that also died six days after her baby’s death. She died from an infection of the blood during labor that if goes untreated will kill you. Well back in 1888 they did not have the technology to help her. So, the ghost that crouches beside the tombstone of a baby is its mother that was heartbroken and now will be with her baby for eternity.
By: Tysen Stephenson
Macy, Edward B., and Julian T. Buxton. The Ghost of Charleston . 1st ed. Charleston, SC: Beaufort Books, 2001. Print.